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Scots toddler kept alive by portable blood pump desperately needs a new heart

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The family of a Scots toddler who is kept alive with a portable blood pump are pleading with people to become an organ donor.Ethan Mains, from Glasgow, is a patent at Ward 23 of the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and needs a new heart.

Due to his situation, the three-year-old cannot leave the hospital for long and rarely goes outside.The tot is one of many sick children waiting even longer for life-saving surgery in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

His parents have joined an appeal with the families of other children on the ward to urge more people to become a donor in the event of their own death.Ethan's father Stuart Mains said: "Organ donation is such an abstract thing you never really think about it until you need to.

I hope we can bring a little bit of human connection."It is a horrific situation, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody, all we can ask is that anyone who finds themselves faced with this decision gives it a little consideration and thought." The Freeman Hospital is a specialist centre for heart operations.

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